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VC824   Rupert Vance Moon

Name   Rupert Vance Moon   No.      

VC Issue No.   824   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Regiment 58th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia

Place Of Death   Ballarine Private Hospital, Whittington, Victoria, Australia

Buried/Location Ashes   Mount Duneed Cemetery, Victoria, Australia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   4 April 1986

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Church of England Section

Gazetted   14 June 1917

VC Presented   3 August 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Mount Duneed Cemetery, Victoria, Australia

The Rupert Vance Moon V.C. Memorial Garden, Mount Duneed Cemetery, Victoria, Australia

Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

By The Way…

His nickname was Mick

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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BORN   14 August 1892

DIED   9 April 1986   AGE   93

VC Won   12 May 1917   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Near Bullecourt, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

VC Ephemera

Thank you to Anthony Staunton